160+ Best Self Love Quotes to Boost Your Mood and Confidence

Self love quotes serve as a gentle reminder of the importance of prioritizing ourselves. In a world that often celebrates external achievements, these quotes encourage us to cultivate a nurturing relationship with our inner selves. Whether you’re facing a rough day or simply needing a boost of confidence, a well-chosen quote can act like a soothing balm, reigniting your self-worth. 

Integrating these self love quotes into your daily routine can transform the way you view both challenges and triumphs. A simple practice, like reading or reflecting on a quote each morning, can set a positive tone for your day, fostering resilience and a clearer mindset. They remind us that self-compassion is not a luxury, but a necessity. In celebrating our individuality, these quotes build a sense of community.

Inspirational Self Love Quotes

• “Self-care is never a selfish act—it is simply good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth to offer to others.”—Parker Palmer
• “The key to life is accepting challenges. Once someone stops doing this, he’s dead.”―Bette Davis
• “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.”―Shannon L. Alder
• “Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.”―Jennifer Elisabeth
• “It’s all about falling in love with yourself and sharing that love with someone who appreciates you, rather than looking for love to compensate for a self-love deficit.”―Eartha Kitt
• “It is interesting how often we can’t see all the ways in which we are being strong.”—Lena Dunham
• “Self-love is an ocean, and your heart is a vessel. Make it full, and any excess will spill over into the lives of the people you hold dear. But you must come first.”―Beau Taplin
• “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.”—Buddha
• “I took a deep breath and listened to the old brag of my heart. I am, I am, I am.”―Sylvia Plath
• “Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you. Stop acting so small. You are the universe in ecstatic motion. Set your life on fire.”—Rumi
• “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.”—Brené Brown
• “Your self-worth is determined by you. You don’t have to depend on someone telling you who you are.”—Beyoncé
• “Once you’ve accepted your flaws, no one can use them against you.”—George R.R. Martin
• “The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it.”―J. M. Barrie
• “The hardest challenge is to be yourself in a world where everyone is trying to make you be somebody else.”—E.E. Cummings
• “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”—George Bernard Shaw
• “This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.”—Voltaire
• “Don’t waste your energy trying to change opinions … Do your thing, and don’t care if they like it.”―Tina Fey
• “If you’re not someone who has a natural and effortless love for yourself, it’s hard to let go of your desire to please other people, and that’s really not an ingredient for a happy life.”—Anne Hathaway
• “My mother told me to be a lady. And for her, that meant be your own person, be independent.”—Ruth Bader Ginsburg
• “My mission, should I choose to accept it, is to find peace with exactly who and what I am. To take pride in my thoughts, my appearance, my talents, my flaws, and to stop this incessant worrying that I can’t be loved as I am.”―Anaïs Nin
• “There is you and you. This is a relationship. This is the most important relationship.”―Nayyirah Waheed
• “Not only do self-love and love of others go hand in hand,but ultimately they are indistinguishable.”―M. Scott Peck
• “I must undertake to love myself and to respect myself as though my very life depends upon self-love and self-respect.”—Maya Angelou
• “When you take care of yourself, you’re a better person for others. When you feel good about yourself, you treat others better.”—Solange Knowles
• “Self-love, my liege, is not so vile a sin as self-neglecting.”—William Shakespeare
• “For me, self-love is like, ‘Am I sleeping enough? Eating well?’ Not: ‘Am I eating well to be able to fit into my skinny jeans?’ But: ‘Am I eating well to be healthy and strong?’ And to acknowledge the good, because there is always a lot of good.” —Kerry Washington
• “If you have no confidence in self, you are twice defeated in the race of life.”— Marcus Garvey
• “Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes.”—Carl Gustav Jung

Short Self Love Quotes

• “The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.” ―C.G. Jung
• “And you? When will you begin that long journey into yourself?”—Rumi
• “If there is no struggle, there is no progress.”—Frederick Douglass
• “Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”—André Gide
• “Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.” —Albert Einstein
• “Be the love you never received.”—Rune Lazuli
• “Treat yourself like someone you love.”―Glennon Doyle
• “Our first and last love is self-love.”—Christian Nestell Bovee
• “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”—Confucius
• “Talk to yourself like someone you love.” – Brené Brown
• “Find out who you are and do it on purpose.”—Dolly Parton
• “Do your thing and don’t care if they like it.”—Tina Fey
• “We accept the love we think we deserve.”—Stephen Chbosky
• “Gonna love myself. No, I don’t need anybody else.”—Hailee Steinfeld
• “Keep taking time for yourself until you’re you again.”—Lalah Delia
• “Be kind to yourself.” —Unknown
• “Self-confidence is contagious.”―Stephen Richards
• “Tear off the mask, your face is glorious.” –Rumi
• “Make no comparisons. Keep your head down and do your own thing.” —Torrie Asai
• “Keep watering yourself. You’re growing.”—E.Russell
• “You change the world by being yourself.” —Yoko Ono
• “I celebrate myself, and sing myself.”—Walt Whitman
• “The universe took its time on you.”—Rupi Kaur
• “Be bold, be brave enough to be your true self.”—Queen Latifah
• “All love begins with the love within.”—Vironika Tugaleva
• “Beauty comes from a life well lived”— Jennifer Garner
• “Turn your wounds into wisdom.”—Oprah Winfrey
• “All lights turned off can be turned on.”—Noah Kahan
• “Plant hope in your heart’s wounds.”—Alexandra Vasiliu
• “If you wish to be loved, love.”—Hecaton of Rhodes
• “The bad news is time flies. The good news is you’re the pilot.”—Michael Altshuler
• “Every exit is an entrance to someplace else.”—Patti LaBelle
• “Love. Laugh. And live it up!”—Christie Brinkley

Self Love Affirmations

• “Love yourself. Be clear on how you want to be treated. Know your worth. Always.” – Maryam Hasnaa
• “You are enough and you are loved.”—Unknown
• “You are kind. You are strong. You are important.”—The Help by Kathryn Stockett
• “You are more important than you’ll ever know.”—Unknown
• “You are enough”—Unknown
• “The only person who can pull me down is myself, and I’m not going to let myself pull me down anymore.”—C. JoyBell C.
• “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”—Eleanor Roosevelt
• “Be healthy and take care of yourself, but be happy with the beautiful things that make you, you.”—Beyoncé
• “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you.”—Rupi Kaur
• “Document the moments you feel most in love with yourself – what you’re wearing, who you’re around, what you’re doing. Recreate and repeat.”—Warsan Shire
• “I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.”―Madonna
• “Lighten up on yourself. No one is perfect. Gently accept your humanness.”―Deborah Day
• “Beauty is how you feel inside, and it reflects in your eyes. It is not something physical.”—Sophia Loren
• “Self-love has very little to do with how you feel about your outer self. It’s about accepting all of yourself.”—Tyra Banks
• “It took me a long time not to judge myself through someone else’s eyes.”—Sally Field
• “Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still.”—Chinese Proverb
• “To fall in love with yourself is the first secret to happiness.”—Robert Morely
• “Wanting to be someone else is a waste of the person you are.”—Marilyn Monroe
• “Just do what works for you, because there will always be somebody who thinks differently.”—Michelle Obama
• “You will belong here. . .You will make anywhere beautiful.”―Jasmine Warga
• “Choose, every day, to forgive yourself. You are human, flawed, and most of all worthy of love.”—Alison Malee
• “The same light you see in others is shining within you, too.”—Morgan Harper Nichols
• “Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you! Shout loud, ‘I am lucky to be what I am!…’”—Dr. Seuss

Happy Self Love Quotes

• “The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “You’ve got to love yourself first. You’ve got to be OK on your own before you can be OK with somebody else. You’ve got to value yourself and know that you’re worth everything.”—Jennifer Lopez
• “As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow.”—Charlie Chaplin
• “To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”—Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.”—Oscar Wilde
• “Love yourself unconditionally, just as you love those closest to you despite their faults.”—Les Brown
• “Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.”—Lucille Ball
• “In your own life it’s important to know how spectacular you are.”—Steve Maraboli
• “You have to believe that your ideas, and your hope, and your being, deserve to take up space.”―Bianca Sparacino
• “And I said to my body, ‘I want to be your friend.’ It took a long breath. And replied, ‘I have been waiting my whole life for this.”—Nayyirah Waheed
• “I remind myself to be kind to myself, and as slightly ridiculous as it may sound, to treat myself in the same gentle way I’d want to treat a daughter of mine. It really helps.”—Emma Stone
• “If we all did the things we are capable of doing we would literally astound ourselves.”—Thomas Edison
• “By doing the work to love ourselves more, I believe we will love each other better.”—Laverne Cox
• “We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light.”—Mary Dunbar
• “I’m safe inside this container called me.”―Haruki Murakami
• “May you choose yourself, always!”―Malebo Sephodi
• “I like me. I like my story and all the bumps and bruises. That’s what makes me uniquely me.”—Michelle Obama
• “I am sure of myself as a person. I am sure of my talent. I’m sure of my love for life and that sort of thing. I am very content, I like the kind of person that I am.” —Dolly Parton
• “The things that make me different are the things that make me.”—A.A. Milne
• “Be a master at loving yourself and people will follow.”—Kim Guerra
• “One of the most important things you can accomplish is just being yourself.”—Dwayne Johnson
• “If you are happy, you can give happiness. If you don’t love yourself and if you are unhappy with yourself, you can’t give anything else but that.”—Gisele Bündchen
• “Embrace the glorious mess that you are.”—Elizabeth Gilbert
• “To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don’t wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.”—Alan Cohen
• “Sometimes I pretend to be normal. But it gets boring. So I go back to being me.”—Ain Eineziz
• “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”—Oscar Wilde
• “The more I like me, the less I want to pretend to be other people.”—Jamie Lee Curtis
• “I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.”—Henry James
• “I’ve finally stopped running away from myself. Who else is there better to be?”—Goldie Hawn
• “Beauty begins the moment you decide to be yourself.”—Coco Chanel
• “Friendship with oneself is all-important because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”—Eleanor Roosevelt
• “I’m all about body positivity and self-love because I believe that we can save the world if we first save ourselves.”—Lizzo
• “I am stepping right into where I am with no shame, and it feels good.”—Andie MacDowell
• “Instead of drifting along like a leaf in a river, understand who you are and how you come across to people, and what kind of an impact you have on the people around you and the world, so that when you go out, you can feel you have made a positive difference.”—Jane Fonda
• “Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”—Mahatma Gandhi
• “When we’re growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.”—Elliot Page
• “One of the best guides to how to be self-loving is to give ourselves the love we are often dreaming about receiving from others.”—Bell Hooks

Beautiful Quotes about Myself

• “I hope people take away the fact that it is possible to have a different sort of life.” Jane Goodall
• “Good things take time, and you most certainly are a good thing.” – Chelsie Diane
• “I am beginning to learn that it is the sweet, simple things of life which are the real ones after all.” ― Laura Ingalls Wilder
• “Your silence will not protect you.” – Audrey Lorde
• “Your body is the source of your connection to the beautiful life experience.”-Lumalia from free High on Life, Let’s Make it Hot not Heavy 
• “If you don’t throw yourself into something, you’ll never know what you could have had.”― Amy Winehouse
• “Drama is very important in life. You have to come on with a bang. Everything can have drama if done right.” -Julia Chid 
• “When a woman wants to be a legend she better go out and be one” – Calamity Jane
• “The only hands of God are my own.” -Theresa of Avila 
• “Is it reckless, but what do dreams know of boundaries?” – Amelia Earhart
• “You change your relationship to the moment, and everything changes.”-Lumalia from free High on Life, Let’s Make it Hot not Heavy 

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Self Love Poems & Long Self Love Quotes

• “It is where everything that is not love and worship for the divine beings that we are – falls away. It is peeking into the strange universe that each one of us holds and saying, “Yes. I see you, you divine thing. You beautiful, sacred universe.” When you have a group of people who call you into remembering there is no other way to move through space. You begin to believe again (or more strongly) in the power of love and joy and community and how pain is a tool for individual transformation. That everything in your beautiful life is there to help you remember.” – Lindsay Douglas
• “Sometimes our best form of self-love is where we do things when no one is watching, no one is noticing, and it’s the holy act that we get to whisper to ourselves each time we come to stand in front of the mirror and relearn how to adore ourselves in a way only true lovers do, in whispers, in consecrated corners, under sheets, behind closed doors, and all the private places where we get to be the most seen.  Then when you come out, you’re absolutely glowing, and it’s this sacred secret between you and yourself that your darling is your own damn beautiful lover. Go love her, just like that.” – Lumalia 

• “First, you must realize you’re homesick for all the lives you’re not living. Then, you must commit to the road and the rising loneliness. To the sincere thrill of coming apart. Divorce yourself from routine and control. Instead, find a desert and fall in. Take the trail that promises a view. Get lost. Break your toes. Bruise your knees. Keep going. Watch a purple meadow quiver. Get still. Pet trail dogs. Buy the hat. Run out of gas. Befriend strangers. Knight yourself every morning for your newborn courage. Give grief her own lullaby. Drink whiskey beside a hundred-year-old cactus. Honor everything. Pray for something unnameable. Fall for someone impractical. Reacquaint yourself with desire and all her slender hands. Bear beauty for as long as you are able, and if you spot a sunning warbler glowing like a prism, remind yourself – joy is not a trick.” – Joy Sullivan, love this? Check out Joy’s incredible poetry book Instructions for Traveling West
• “Love yourself enough to create an environment in your life that is conducive to the nourishment of your personal growth. Allow yourself to let go of the people, thoughts, and situations that poison your well-being. Cultivate a vibrant surrounding and commit yourself to making choices that will help you release the greatest expression of your unique beauty and purpose.” – Briana Wiest, check out Briana’s work in Truth About Everything
• “You yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.” – Buddha
• “You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here.” – Max Ehrmann
• “I found in my research that the biggest reason people aren’t more self-compassionate is that they are afraid they’ll become self-indulgent. They believe self-criticism is what keeps them in line. Most people have gotten it wrong because our culture says being hard on yourself is the way to be.” – Kristen Neff
• “You are the only person who can love yourself wholly and completely. Don’t rely on others to fill that space.” – Cynthia Occelli
• “It’s not selfish to love yourself, take care of yourself, and to make your happiness a priority. It’s necessary.” – Mandy Hale
• “The most important aspect of love is not in giving or the receiving: it’s in the being. When I need love from others, or need to give love to others, I’m caught in an unstable situation. Being in love, rather than giving or taking love, is the only thing that provides stability.” Ram Dass
• “Admit something: Everyone you see, you say to them, ‘Love me.’ Of course, you do not do this out loud, otherwise someone would call the cops. Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect. Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye that is always saying, with that sweet moon vision, ‘Love me.’” – Hafez

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Self Love Quotes for Women

• “My best work—a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.” – Audre Lorde
• “She remembered who she was and the game changed.” – Lalah Delia
• “I am my own muse. I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” – Frida Kahlo
• “You do not have to sacrifice to be loved.” Dr. Chelsea Page
• “She believed she could, so she did.” – R.S. Grey
• “Women are like teabags. You never know how strong they are until they are in hot water.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
• “ 3.9 Billion women wake this morning and never worry about a man again.” Chelsie Diane
• “Her curves mimic mountains; volcanoes when she’s breastfeeding. Her yoni epitomizes flowers, nectar as she orgasms.” Karina Sitaldas Ganglani from her debut poetry book Pieces of my He(art)
• “A strong woman is one who feels deeply and loves fiercely. Her tears flow just as abundantly as her laughter.” – Unknown
• “A strong woman stands up for herself. A stronger woman stands up for everyone else.” – Unknown
• “They lied. The goal was never to be the prettiest woman in the room. That’s boring as hell. It was always to be the most alive. to be the youngest you. therefore the most radiant! most magnetic! most incandescent most poetic the most true.” Chelsie Diane, don’t you just love her? Grab Chelsie’s poetry book Poems & Power here

Self Love Quotes for Men

• “A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.” – Mark Twain
• “Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.” – Robert Tew
• “Real men aren’t afraid of showing love and affection.” – Unknown
• “Being a male is a matter of birth. Being a man is a matter of choice.” – Edwin Louis Cole
• “The best way to gain self-confidence is to do what you are afraid to do.” – Swati Sharma
• “A real man treats his lady the same way he wants another man to treat his daughter.” – Unknown
• “A man who loves and respects himself is not selfish; he knows the importance of self-care and self-improvement.” – Unknown
• “A man’s true wealth is the good he does in the world.” – Kahlil Gibran
• “A man who knows himself is confident in his purpose and direction.” – Unknown
• “A man who values and loves himself sets an example for others to do the same.” – Unknown

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Self Love Quotes to Share with Your Partner

• “You are deserving of the love that resides within you.” – Brianna Wiest
• “In you, I’ve found the love of my life and my closest, truest friend.” – Unknown
• “You are my today and all of my tomorrows.” – Leo Christopher
• “I love you not only for what you are but for what I am when I am with you.” – Roy Croft
• “You make me a better person just by being in my life.” – Unknown
• “With you, I am home.” – Unknown
• “You are the best thing that ever happened to me.” – Unknown
• “Every moment with you is a gift.” – Unknown
• “Being with you feels like coming home.” – Unknown
• “I love you more than words can express.” – Unknown

Conclusion

As we wrap up our exploration of self love quotes, it’s clear that nurturing a positive relationship with ourselves is crucial for overall well-being. The collection of over 160 quotes offers powerful insights that can help ignite the flame of confidence and positivity within you.

Each quote serves as a gentle nudge to remind you of your worth and to embrace the unique qualities that make you special. By integrating these words into your daily life, you can inspire not only yourself but also those around you to prioritize self love.

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